The information displayed on this website represents my first (ongoing)
representations of the data collected during the period February 2000
to approximately June 2000.

The data shown represents the information received from 111 teacher
respondents in a single school district. There were a few more surveys
collected than this, however, some surveys had to be discounted for
various reasons such as wrong grade level. One survey arrived too
late to be counted. (Note: Data received from other districts via
the online survey are not included at this time... and it may be mentioned
now that unfortunately only a few teachers from other districts actually
responded to the survey).

Each school principal in the unnamed district was contacted individually
in order to obtain permission to speak to the Grade 4 & 5 teachers.
All principals contacted were agreeable to the survey. After I presented
a short explanation of my study, surveys were handed out by the school
principals to the Grade 4 & 5 teachers. Interested teachers completed
the surveys by hand or online. No teachers chose the option of tape
recording or personal interview for the survey.

The unnamed district chosen represents one of the larger B.C. school
districts which has shown a positive attitude towards introducing
technology into its schools. (Note: At no time in the writing of the
final thesis will specific names or locations be mentioned.)

At this time the information is displayed as "data" only,
without comments as to implications. The actual "writing"
of my thesis is still a very long way off!

I have organized the results as links from the specific questions.
I am continuing to work on organizing the results, however, being
back at teaching full-time will make this rather a slow process! I
hope to eventually have most of the results displayed on this website.

The data has been transferred to Excel spreadsheets completely by
myself. The keyboarding accuracy has been checked by a tedious process
of my going over each question in every individual survey three or
more times!

After entering the data in a spreadsheet, in many cases I am then
transferring the Excel spreadsheets into the SPSS 8.0 (statistical)
program in order to produce the charts of results. This is certainly
an area of new learning for me!

Rather than displaying many tables of specific results, I am instead
showing charts or graphs of the general results. This website is intended
to give teachers a general idea of what information was gathered,
not to destroy their interest by an overabundance of numbers! Please
contact me if you require specifics for your own thesis!

I hope this information provides a sufficient "background"
for teachers to get a rough idea of how the data was collected. Please
feel free to e-mail me if you feel I have missed something important...
with the understanding that this website does not purport to be more
than a basic level display of "general data collected".